arXiv AI By Victor Shea-Jay Huang, Rongqing Li, Zhangyue Yin, Kelong Mao, Yaqi Zhao, Xinyuan Wang, Yao Yin, Lirui Luo, Renrui Zhang, Hongsheng Li

SWE-Shift: Evaluating Coding Agents in Evolving Workspaces

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SWE-Shift is a new benchmark that tests coding agents in environments where tasks and workspaces can change mid-execution. It presents 120 scenarios across 12 change families, each evaluated at nine intervention points, comparing a Clean continuation (no change) with a Shifted continuation (task-relevant update). The benchmark shows that all evaluated agents perform better on Clean than on Shifted, with significant drops in success rates and zero paired success for certain change types.

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arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 12

SWE-Duel: Towards a Self-Scaling Arena for Coding Agents

SWE‑Duel proposes a self‑scaling benchmark for coding agents, where tasks and oracles are generated at evaluation time to prevent data leakage and adapt difficulty to participant performance. In the arena, two agents take turns as Red and Blue: Red proposes a feature, injects a subtle bug, and must repair it blind, while Blue reviews the pull request without knowing the bug and must pass all tests. A tournament of 11 model‑harness participants on 15 repositories across five languages showed GPT‑5.5/​Codex CLI as the top solver and Claude Opus 4.8/​mini‑swe‑agent as the top task author, with newer model versions producing harder tasks for older ones.

By Wei Minn, Zhensu Sun, Lwin Khin Shar, David Lo